Self-service business intelligence is a bit of a unicorn, according to a recent piece by Wayne Eckerson, a principal consultant at BI Leader Consulting. Overall, you can safely say that the report ...

In this special guest feature, Brett Hurt, CEO of data.world, discusses why self-Service BI tools alone can’t build data-driven cultures. Brett is the CEO and co-founder of data.world, a Public ...

In this special guest feature, Chris Neumann of Data Hero explores the growing world of self-service BI tools and how they can one day empower end users to be self-sufficient. Chris Neumann is a data ...

When it’s suggested that Expedia is the largest self-service BI tool, people are often surprised at this analysis. Isn’t Expedia just a booking site?It’s true that it organizes bookings, but in order ...

The Great Recession caught most of the used-car industry by surprise, says Chris Brady, CIO at Dealer Services Corp. A lot of dealers assumed the downturn would be short and mild, so they went on ...

Despite the many benefits associated with self-service BI, uptake locally and internationally has been slow; but this could change in the not-too-distant future. That’s the view of Sven Vosse, leader ...

CHICAGO -- Can mainstream line-of-business users really access the power of business intelligence (BI) all by themselves? Self-service BI may be upon us, according to the keynote address at The Data ...

The deluge of information generated within organizations, coupled with the pressure to make business decisions from the data produced, is spurring demand by non-IT end-users to be empowered with ...

Self-service business intelligence (BI) is closely related to "democratizing" Big Data analytics and other do-it-yourself movements like no-code mobile app development, all with the goal of putting ...

I recently read an article by David Strom titled “The Best Self-Service Business Intelligence Tools of 2015.” It made me think about the role, purpose, and practical use of self-service business ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about how to drive more value with data and analytics. After years of business users being dependent on busy, understaffed ...

Self-service BI's long-promoted claim of providing analytics apps and tools to line-of-business users without IT intervention is working. Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft Teams, and Jira are the most ...